Apocalypto

Joshua A. Rosel September 26, 2014 OT 1-1 Ma’am Cherish Chua The Awakenings The Awakenings (The epidemic of children who fell asleep) is a 1990 American comedy-drama film and based on a true story. The film was directed by Penny Marshall and produced by Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. The purpose of this movie is to show the viewers that even there seems to be no solution for the problem, God makes a way when there seems to be no way. I think that those people who are in the field of medical and those people who already wanted to give up their life will like this film because they can follow the story and they will learn something from it. This movie is great because I can relate on it. Most of the time, I felt like there’s always something wrong, it feels like I haven’t done anything right all my life, I failed all the time and it seems like I can’t achieve anything. But then, when I watched this movie I learned that there’s always someone in this world that has a bigger problem than yours but still, they’re fighting and not giving up. Also this movie gives me motivation to do my best until the end because along the way, something will happen that will change your perception about the things that is happening in your life and you’re going to love it. I learned a lot of things about this movie like even you’re in your deepest nightmare there will be always someone who will look for you. I also learned that the only way to do great work is to love what you do. I also found this film a little bit funny because of the reaction of the patients when Dr. Sayer was observing them like the part when Dr Sayer put the eyeglass of Lucy to the ground then he is waiting for Lucy to pick it up but Lucy didn’t respond. But the best is when Dr Sayer approached Waheeda to get some information then he took his pen and clicked it, then suddenly Waheeda started screaming and that causes Dr. Sayer into a shock. There’s also a part when I almost cried, it is when Leonard says goodbye to Paula and they dance together for the last time.…...

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Set in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula (Central America), during the 16th century, Mel Gibson’s, Apocalypto follows the journey of a Mayan villager by the name of “Jaguar Paw”. This adaptation of the Mayan Empire illuminates a prophecy, surrounding Jaguar. The movie was historically accurate as far as Mayan Empire culture and the sacrificial process. The appearance of the Mayans in this film was spot on. They had stretched ear lobes, long hair, outlandish headdresses, burn scars, and tattoos. It didn’t delve into the every day life enough for it to be accurate, or inaccurate. The opening scenes consisted of hunting, and a village campfire, and that’s as far as it went for daily life.
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The tale is simple, yet a surprisingly powerful one. A peaceful Mayan village is attacked by invading forces and Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is viciously separated from his family (but not before hiding his wife and child in a well) and sent to a fantastical city built on blood, fear, and oppression, where he is to become a human sacrifice to the gods. A twist of fate offers him a chance to escape and with his unwavering determination and bravery he embarks on a bloody voyage to rejoin his family. Savagely pursued by his enemies, Jaguar Paw will need to utilize the skillful prowess and cunning tricks taught to him by his father to evade capture
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...The movie opened with a quote “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within”-Will Durant. Then the camera focuses on the outskirts of a forest slowly zooming in and introducing us to a group of Mayan villagers chasing a wild boar. This scene is where we are introduced to the main character, Jaguar Paw. Jaguar Paw was the son of the chief of the village. As they are splitting the meat of the pig they caught another tribe wanders by only asking for permission to pass. The presumed leader of that passing tribe warns Jaguar Paw that they are leaving because their campsite was invaded. Jaguar Paw and the Chief noticed the looks fear and terror on their faces. However they push this back in their mind and started to head back to their village. That night they gathered around their elders to hear stories and everything went on without disruption.
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Gibson filmed Apocalypto mainly in Catemaco, San Andrés Tuxtla and Paso de Ovejas in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The waterfall scene was filmed at Salto de Eyipantla, located in San Andrés Tuxtla. Other filming by second-unit crews took place in El Petén, Guatemala. The film was originally slated for an August 4, 2006, release, but Touchstone Pictures delayed the release date to December 8, 2006, due to heavy rains and two hurricanes interfering with filming in Mexico. Principal photography ended in July 2006.
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...Gerhard Lenski saw the society as a product of the development of technology.According to him, it is the technology which shapes one’s society. Lenski’s socioculturalevolution consists of five societies, mainly, the hunting and gathering society, the horticulturaland pastoral society, the agricultural society, the industrial society, and lastly the post-industrialsociety. These societies evolved through the creation of new technology that enables us human toincrease production and to sustain a larger amount of population.The movie, Apocalypto, features the first four type of society in Lenski’s socioculturalevolution. Jaguar Paw’s tribe in my opinion is a hunter-gatherer society but it is having itstransition to the horticultural-pastoral society. Jaguar Paw’s tribe belongs to the hunter-gatherer society since they hunt for their food as seen in the very beginning of the movie wherein theycaught a wild boar in the middle of the forest. The tribe of Jaguar Paw also has a shaman who isin the person of the dad of Jaguar Paw, Flint Sky. Their tribe was also family-centered since itwas like they treated each other like brothers and sisters. They are concerned with each other likea family does with each other. In the movie, the dad of Jaguar Paw once told him that heshouldn’t show his fear to the neighbourhood since it will greatly affect the whole tribe. If we areto compare it to the present, usually, people won’t take into consideration the feelings of others.It is like people......

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...sacrifices and extreme violence and demonstrated a negative view about the Mayans. In the movie apocalypto Mel Gibson is misrepresenting the Mayan culture and demonstrates many inaccurate historical facts about the Mayans civilization. Mel Gibson demonstrates a civilization engaged in extreme sacrificial ceremonies a civilization seen as a bloodthirsty and extremely violent. My research is set during the time period of the Classical period. The Movie Apocalypto drama unfolds in the last days of the Mayan civilization in Central America Mel Gibson starts the movie with the arrival of the Spanish.
Apocaltpyto story begins with a peaceful village that gets ransacked and burned to the ground by a group of warriors; its inhabitants killed or carried off as captives. One young man, Jaguar Paw manages to hide his pregnant wife and child in a well before he too is captured and taken away. After a terrifying journey, the warriors and their captives arrive in a large Mayan city in an area suffering from drought and plague. In the main temple the prisoners are to be sacrificed in an effort to appease the angry gods. After a natural miracle barely saves Jaguar Paw from this fate, he manages to flee, wounded, into the jungle. The fearsome warriors give chase. Then Jaguar paw and his wife are saved. Their two elements dominated in the film extreme violence and mass human sacrifices.
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...Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson (Mel Gibson), born January 3rd 1956, is an American actor and film-maker, Gibson has written, directed and produced many films such as “Braveheart”, “The Passion of Christ” and “Apocalypto”.
Mel Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York but moved to Sydney, Australia, with his parents at the age of twelve where later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. Gibson was a part of the Australian Film Renaissance of the 1970’s and 1980’s, where his acting career began with a role in the TV series “The Sullivans” before starring in the film “Mad Max (1979)”. In the late 1980’s Gibson commenced acting in American films, such as “Lethal Weapon (1987)”, “What Women Want”.
When Gibson was established as a successful career as an actor he then made his directorial debut with the 1993 film “The Man Without a Face” which Gibson also produced.
The second film Mel Gibson produced was the 1995, Academy Award-winning “Braveheart” in 2004. Gibson also directed and produced “The Passion of the Christ” a controversial yet successful film portraying the last hours in the life of Jesus Christ in 2006. Mel Gibson directed the film Apocalypto.
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